 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, President. Commissioner, the Committee of Regions obviously is made up of directly elected local regional representatives and obviously we are the direct voice of the people we represent. The speaker is reading extremely fast. We have been trying to tackle the crisis and obviously we're now having to directly fight the consequences of the pandemic. Obviously over the past 25 years we've done our work, but a lot of things haven't been properly reflected in the budget. On behalf of the EPP what we have to do is assure that the Committee of Regions does provide the necessary financial and human resources in order to be able to properly function in the Committee of Regions and this has to be reflected in the MFF. We have our needs that we do need additional finances for example. If you take a look at what we have in the budget for 2021 we've said that we need financial resources in order to cover the needs that we have expressed. The Committee of Regions is an important body and anyway as I said we do need the right kind of budget in order to be able to carry out important activities and if we compare our Committee to the Economic and Social Committee and the number of members they get about 40 million more, they hire more people as well, than the Committee of Regions. So there is this difference in the budget between the Committee of Regions, the Economic and Social Committee and this has not been properly reflected in the draft budget for 2021 so as members of the Committee of the Regions we would like to make sure that we can properly exert our influence through our opinion so once again we'd like to turn to the Commission with our earlier request when it comes to the budget and ensure that we do have extra financial resources granted to the Committee of Regions under the draft 21 budget and also 2021 to 2027 without the European taxpayer having to pay more so thank you very much Commissioner for your attention. Thank you.